Miles Murphy
Co-founder of the production company Happy.film
Miles Murphy has directed hundreds of TVC’s, half a dozen short films and was the 2nd unit director on the feature film Pork Pie. Prior to directing Miles worked as an actor, an art director, a post-production consultant, 3D animator and for nearly 15 years as a grip including dolly grip on the Lord of the Rings trilogy. You could say he’s pretty well rounded.
In his day Miles was a gun breakdancer with his crew called The Electric Ewoks and still pulls the headspin out on occasion (at wrap parties). You can view Miles’ work on the Happy website.
Angela Murphy – Producer
Co-founder of Happy, Angela produces TVC’s, features and short films, has coordinated multiple feature films and has diplomas in production design, screen production and acting. She was also instrumental in the launch and implementation of film production software company Showtools. Which we use, because it’s extremely useful.
Adam Clark
After working on Taika Waititi’s Oscar-nominated short film Two Cars, One Night (2003), Adam Clark made his feature debut as a director of photography in 2007 with Waititi’s first full-length movie, odd couple tale Eagle vs Shark. After shooting Waititi’s second feature — Kiwi box office champ Boy — Clark took away a Qantas Film Award in 2010. His eclectic CV also includes much traveled short film The Hole, plus music videos (Little Things), commercials, and docudrama What Really Happened – Waitangi. His contributions to Vincent Ward’s Rain of the Children were also Qantas nominated.
“Allen Guilford, AlBol (Alun Bollinger) and Richard Bluck taught me all the skills I needed to become a cinematographer. But in the end you have to reinvent the wheel for yourself. My wheel still has rough edges, but I’m working on it.”
– Adam Clark
Glenn Wood
Glenn has been employed as a senior copywriter by many of the country’s leading advertising agencies including Colenso BBDO, Saatchi and Saatchi, Y&R, Barnes Catmur, TBWA and DDB. He has also held a Creative Director position at Ogilvy in Auckland.
Glenn’s first novel ‘The Laughing Policeman’ was published by Shoal Bay Press in November 1998 to popular and critical acclaim. His second book ‘Cop Out’ was released in 2000 and also received excellent reviews. Both books are now being sold worldwide on Amazon as ebooks and have reached number one in Amazon’s Biography, Memoirs and Humour categories.
Glenn’s career includes writing for television, including scripts for Shortland Street, Funny Business, Seven Days and the children’s series Life on Ben and The Goober Brothers.
Glenn has completed several screenplays, one of which, ‘The Catch’ had a limited cinema release in 2016 and has been very well received.
